WIP Challenge: Day 18 Check-In

[katzenjamming]

Hello all! I'm Lee and I'll be handling the daily check-ins for the week! I hope the next seven days go well for everyone in your writing projects and everything else. :D

So, how's everyone feeling about their projects moving into this new week, and what did you do with your WIP today?

• Wrote?
• Planned?
• Edited?
• Researched?
• Sent to beta?
• Took a break?
• ...did something else? (Tell us in the comments!)

Discussion Topic: Besides fanfic, do you regularly write anything else -- day-to-day journaling, media reviews, non-fiction essays, translations, something for work or school...? Do you find that it affects your fanfic writing, or vice versa?

Comments

[littlebutfierce]

I sent the second part of my Natsume Yuujinchou fic to beta, hooray! This is the part w/ACTUAL PLOT, so I am quite nervous about it, since I mostly deal in feeeeeeelings. I think it's pretty good, but my first beta had some awesome comments & I know this beta will as well.

I also wrote some Natsume OT3 fluff for my 750 Words, & also just spent some time opening up various files & looking at the snippets inside. Some of them are surprisingly close to being finished! It was a good way to kind of encourage myself to get back into the fic swing of things.

I write somewhat erratically in my own DW: day-to-day stuff &/or political rants &/or media recs, etc. I used to do zines (not fanzines, zines as in, I dunno, DIY personal-is-political etc. etc.) for years & years -- but I haven't done one in about 3 years. I kind of miss it (& despite what people say, blogs/online journals don't replace paper zines). I think if anything, whatever other various bits of writing I do only help my fic: sometimes b/c writing meta about fandoms stirs up new ideas, of course, but also I imagine pretty much any writing is good to be doing, & will have benefits for one's writing overall.

[jagnikjen]

Have done absolutely no writing this weekend. I found an absolutely brilliant author and have been reading every stinkin' chapter she's written.

Do I regularly write anything else? Nope. Not really. I do write original fiction, but my attention span for working on it is sporadic and short lived. I love fic too much right now. And also I prefer the critique/beta/editor process more and am trying to hone/sharpen my skills in that area instead.

[lilly_c]

Took a bit of a break again today :) but I plan *knock wood* to get back to the fics sometime tomorrow :)

I post almost daily to my DW, occasionally I answer the writer blocks questions on LJ (when they're not totally stupid that is) and I also post a lot to my twitter too. In the next couple of weeks I've got to get back in the academic writing mindset which will be hard especially with taking a year off uni to get work experience in my field.

[linaewen]

Yay, I wrote something today! It ended up not being the long thing I imagined, but became a short 100 word thing -- but I finished it, saw that it was well done, and posted it to the challenge queue. Even though it's a skosh late, it's done and I can move on to the next thing!

I do some journaling, posting to forums and blogs, and I also do quite a bit of writing (and editing) for my work -- articles and essays, that kind of thing. If the journaling or the blogging touches upon my fic writing in some way, I sometimes find myself getting some ideas, or at least feeling more inclined to apply myself and get some writing accomplished! As for my other non-fic writing, it doesn't affect my fanfic writing except in the sense that the more I write, the more skilled I become (especially in editing), so my fanfic writing benefits.

[elistaire]

Wrote! I got down quite a bit of a prompt fic. \o/

As for other writing--quite a bit at work. But that's specific, technical language, so it doesn't have much affect on my fanfic. Other than to make me enjoy fanfic a lot more.

[bay_alexison]

Beta'd a fic my friend had send to me a couple weeks ago and looked over a fic from another friend. I then was writing a 800 word fic and finished it for a weekly prompt contest at LJ. Not going to post it yet as I plan to polish it up a bit and then sent it to a beta first. Overall, did some writing and editing/betaing today.

I used to write a lot of essays for school, but I graduated from university last year so I don't do those anymore. I would write posts over real life and fandom stuff in my LJ, but that's about it as far as nonfiction writing goes. I think what I got out from those journal postings is I organize my thoughts over my writing better as I tend to talk about the progress of my stories time to time.

[ficwriter1966]

I pretty much took the weekend off - I've got an idea for a new one-shot, but it's being very stubborn about taking shape in my head!

I do post non-fic ramblings now and then at LJ, but the fic is the bulk of what I write. I'm not much of a meta-er, and am envious of folks who can do that.